Re: Yep, it's been here for about 3-year now....
About 18 yrs ago I was working in Michigan in the oil patch. One of our injection lines had a leak where it passed under a county road via a conduit. A fire chief visited the site and threatened to jail the foreman for not disposing of the contaminated dirt in a hazardous waste facility. It was brine water that we injected into the waterflood. (It was not classified as hazardous waste at that time.) Anyway, the Foreman proceeded to explain to him that the cause of the pipe failure was due to the fact that the county sprayed brine water on the county roads and the runoff corroded the pipe. The Fire chief was appalled and said they did not use "hazardous brine water", but rather a less harmful sounding "mineral water". The county used the same water supply that we did for the water. In order to dispose of all of the contaminated soil, the foreman would have had to dig up all of the county road.
I guess it depends what side of the fence you or your industry is on.
About 18 yrs ago I was working in Michigan in the oil patch. One of our injection lines had a leak where it passed under a county road via a conduit. A fire chief visited the site and threatened to jail the foreman for not disposing of the contaminated dirt in a hazardous waste facility. It was brine water that we injected into the waterflood. (It was not classified as hazardous waste at that time.) Anyway, the Foreman proceeded to explain to him that the cause of the pipe failure was due to the fact that the county sprayed brine water on the county roads and the runoff corroded the pipe. The Fire chief was appalled and said they did not use "hazardous brine water", but rather a less harmful sounding "mineral water". The county used the same water supply that we did for the water. In order to dispose of all of the contaminated soil, the foreman would have had to dig up all of the county road.
I guess it depends what side of the fence you or your industry is on.
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